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On 05/30/2012 12:48, Michael Scheidell wrote:
> Ditto on perl.  UPDATING is wrong on steps.  you can't upgrade perl, you
> need to delete it and everything it depends on and start from scratch.

For portmaster, you can do this which catches the majority of problems.

portmaster -o lang/perlNEWVER lang/perlOLDVER
portmaster p5

What I usually do then is troll the lib/perl5 directories to see if
anything is left, and force an upgrade on it. Not elegant, but it works.

Doug

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